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tee Before he left school, [words his typewriter, -- adil joined the circulation staff of St.| In the mid-192bs, Mr. Smallwood John's The Daily News when he campaigned for the Progressive graduated and was acting editor of party on a swing around New York The Telegram at 18. |state, walked across Newfound- Seeking experience, he worked|land, wrote for a magazine in [nine months for the old Halifax England, helped set up co-opera- |Herald, then the Boston Herald|tive societies, organized the Puip LJ % 2 |and later free-lanced in New York. Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers' oniroversial r igure ty Journalism took a pole U8 5%, Corner, Brock, nd. be {turn," he: says. 'Simple straight lcame campaign manager for Sir By GERALD FREEMAN "There's no man with less pre- business trips he makes to Eng- journalism became qualified, Richary Sdujres: Whois be =a Canadian Press Staff Writer [tension over his position," Mr.|land, Germany, the United States/turned to Newfoundland economy : K ST JOHN'S. Nfld. (CP)--Pre- Vardy says. Though he appearsiand the Canadian mainland. He and history, then interest in so-| Once in a speech at Poughkeep- < mallwood is dapper, his friends have trouble|usually takes a long a brace of cial and economic conditions, labor|gje N,y., he analysed--'not to with a» knack| getting him fo buy new suits, He's|cabinet ministers for consultation movements and co-operatives. her credit" -- the speech of a live up to his been seen at public functions injon his annual vacations to Jamaica) After his first trip home he went woman Democrat who had had her his bedroom slippers. On his farm after Christmas. ] 0 3 ito England and wrote his first say earlier. He discovered later , and driving|he is described as "looking like a/SPLENDID MEMORY '48 THE DATLY TIMES-GAZETTE, Friday, May , 1088 in king-size His siz las '"'owner and cook" of a 40-foot|a "Judas Iscariot" when he went/ing and |book, a Diography of a prominent|she was the wife of a rising poli- early dreams/tramp." | He is a steady reader and re.|Newfoundlander, in three days and tician named Franklin D. Roose- spaper man| The RussWood| members almost everything. His premier owns three nights in London. He hasvelt. r, then carried/farm in partnership with his son-{knowledge of Newfoundland is fan. Written five other books, including| pg leap from pig in-law, Edward Russell. The Rus-|tastic. sell family and that of Mr. Small- I've read thousands upon thou- ambition fulf 1 he two volumes which sold for $2 be-\p ought about the successful or- |a proposed 2-cent cut in their 25- the premier esti- cent hourly wage. He says the walk three pairs of Ve and ne b For © PITTSBURGH WALLHIDE Rubberized Satin Finish LATEX TYPE WALL PAINT conf mier } ar-old Premier personal friend--Britain's Ramsay|tion," he says. They affected him afterwards. TFWE IRS racreage--about 400 acres--in New- 3 NEWFOUNDLAND FIRST 8 a United church clergyman when 4 incessantly, wavs liked farming e a 5 is to mas Eve, 1900, the first of 13 chii- ond-class citi- Mr. Smallwood is a lifelong ab- zen 3 358 oi Mrs, Cook says her oldest pro I as he sees is accessible to everybody and wanted to be--a newspaper man. gling with his MacDonald) live there, with the not individually but *'all in the Altogether, 1 vewfoundland de- premier's five grandchildren. a gregate mates, he has rolled 20,000,000 took 'three months, (is lumber-surveyor father, who | " v D , : lfoundland and specializes in beef Does 9 0/0NS, - For there's no am- > 4 i J : bition." of his sisters [cattle and sheep. Mr. Smallwood's he is through with politics. He Mrs. 1 tewfound. Second son, William, a lawyer who considers John Wesley "one of the - greatest men who ever lived. lards of New- The car provided the premier by ! chi found e of the rest tha province is often spattered dren. He was raised mainly in St of Can |with RussWood mud. He drives it John's. His grandfather came from q Charlottetown to Newfoundland in stainer and threw away his cigaret rl jon of holder two years ago brother "was never afraid of any- The pre He is at his desk from 9 a.m. thing in his life." As a boy he used to seek out ghosts at night on a ovince a solid thinks nothing of summoning as man. ection sociates from bed at 2 am "I romanticized my profession," | re election The premier, five-foot-four and he says, "I went around dreaming about it. It was not just a job, It] eloped rospering as never BIG CLEARED ACREAGE YE Ope : + 2 @:d March 1, and his mother ' expected to follow his father into ; : land I The premier was born in Gambo! land himself and has been accused of : Confede indland out of 1860 to set up the first sawmill on f sith the until well after midnight, working, 3 In Le hillside thought to be haunted. | than one 130 pounds of energy, is a great | third election as wood's son Ramsay (named for a Sands of books of every descrip- before | The farm has the largest cleared } have urged the premier to become politics, says his father has al- ram Hi on the northeast coast on Christ we will ac- carrying sheep in the back seat. ) cept Bonavista bay. reading and receiving visitors. He Young Joseph knew what hej ram." globe-trotter and seems to enjoy was an adventure.' ving a cloak-and-dagger touch to, He began as a printer's PUT MEW Z/P IN YOUR CAR with the LURERTE "ny "SPRING HANGEOVER € ap- sional poli udes develop- ying to steer 1dustries t Home Colour Service Ask your Pittsburgh Paint Dealer for your copy of « Pittsburgh's Home @ ' Colour Service folder- en 'the s thinning, he has 5 some > bounded tie and s a dy-| ner Bal boun | | | | | ist Get perfect results eve, me wiih this amazing Pittsburgh Rubberized Satin paint. Glides on swiftly, smoothly, with brush, or roller. Dries in 20 minutes, without atrace of "painty" odour. Tough, durable and completely washable. € speech peaker with voice. He repeats schoolmaste e sums as e candy. While » sprawls on f boredom a CANADIAN PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIES LIMITED | OSHAWA | Bathe & McLellan Ltd., 81 King St. W., Oshawa [Neil Hardware, 948 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa [Sie Sports & Hardware, 353 King 5t. 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Check tires. Check all lights, horn and wiper blades. d Drain crankcase and refill with proper grade oil. . Drain transmission and differential and refill with fresh gear oil. 4. Check oil filter. There's | ac- iasm costly | mallwood's enthu make dec "they re i not cold sion judge to his, blind t nonest man 8.56.5 SUDERTEST For Quality Poaets a sen- s in prison for 1 Is of dol 2 director-gen- pment was ASTER FEEDS, OSHAWA Your One Stop Centre For GARDEN and LAWN SEEDS, FERTILIZERS, GARDEN TOOLS and EQUIPMENT FERTILIZERS | TOOLS--EQUIPMENT ® Swift's All Organice GARDENITE # Lawn Mowers e SO-GREEN ® Sheep Manure : Rakes e TORGANIC e PEAT MOSS © Edgers e VIGORO @ Grass Shears SEEDS @® Lawn Rollers @ Garden Carls POTATOES © GLADIOLI BULBS ® Lawn and ©® Fertilizer Garden Fence Spreaders GARDEN SEEDS e@ DAHLIA TUBERS LAWN SEEDS e "iow: PLANTS ® Hoes ® Shovels ® Cultivators @ Hedge Shears ® Wheel Barrows CERT. 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He supplied|in 1951. | "Mr. Smallwood." the for Sir Richard Squires' Liberal/meat to the armed forces. | Mr. Smallwood, the member for id T. Smal wool, e magnate party. Shortly after the election! Election to the national conven- Bonzvista North, set up his eco- [F2 easy will record you as the province went bankrupt and|tion that met in 1947 to decide nomic .deveiopment departmerit An pe Rhodes of the new the commission government that!'the fate of Newfoundland was his/with himself as minister and pro- world, Tn, ruled until 1949 took over, route from pig farm to premier-|ceeded to organize the crown), One of the premiers associates From 1932 to 1936 Mr. Small-|ship. {Newfoundland - Labrador Corpora-|takes a gloomier view. wood cruised the northeast coast He was called a "Quisling" andtion, brought major British bank.| Fremier Smallwood will be industrial concerns to- crucified as everyone was who acht, organizing fishermen into alto Ottaw, | i itish-) lever did anything for Newfound- y 8 2 0 al awa as secretary of a dele-|gether in the British-Newfoundland land. But I think history will re- union, In 1936 he began his seven-/gation to obtain terms. On his re-|Corporation now busy in Labrador ' year career in radio as '"'The|turn he barnstormed the Bain SA gr 17 "A industries c0rd the work he has done. Barrelman." His popular program by seaplane to persuade people tolaround the province at a total was a monologue intended to "glor- vote for Confederation. cost of $25,000,000. [ FINE FISH ify Newfoundlanders to them- The first referendum gave no| Mr. Smallwood concluded mould-| Some specimens of rainbow trout selves." It made his name andclear majority, but 52 per cent offing the British-Newfoundland Cor-|introduced to New Zealand rivers voice among the most familiar ialthe vote in the second favored|poration .in the Rothschilds bank- from North America reach a Newfouundland--possibly his great- union with Canada. Mr. Smallwood |ing firm chamber where Sir Cecil|weight of more than 25 pounds. 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